EC 104 Personal Financial Planning
LASC—Individual and Community Well-Being
An investigation of the major vehicles for our personal savings: bonds, stocks,
mutual funds, real estate, and retirement and estate planning.
Offered every year. 3 credits.
EC 110 Introduction to Microeconomics
LASC—Human Behavior and Social Processes
An introduction to the operation of the American market system and to the
behavior of its participants whether consumers, producers, the government, or
other nations engaged in international trade with the United States.
Offered every year. 3 credits.
EC 120 Introduction to Macroeconomics
LASC—Human Behavior and Social Processes
Introduction to economic analysis with particular emphasis upon the national
problems of achieving and maintaining full employment, general price stability,
and growth of the American economy through time.
Offered every year. 3 credits.
EC 130 Selected Topics
Selection of topics of mutual interest to student and faculty. Timely topics and
issues will be covered.
Offered every
2 years. 1-3 credits.
EC 150 Statistics
LASC—Quantitative Reasoning
Prerequisites: EC 110 or EC 120, and Accuplacer
code of 4
Basic tools of statistical analysis appropriate to research in the social
sciences; topics include measures of central tendency, hypothesis testing, time
series, index numbers, regression and correlation.
Offered every year. 3 credits.
EC 193 Special Topics in Economics for First-year Students
All "193" classes are approved for LASC but may vary by section. See current
course listing for specific
LASC area approval.
Introductory level course covering topics of special
interest to first-year students. Offered only as a First-year Seminar.
Offered every year. 3 credits.
EC 200 Intermediate Macroeconomics
Prerequisites: EC 110, EC 120 and minimum sophomore status
An intermediate analysis of the determination of the level and growth of
national income and employment, special attention given to the problems of
inflation and recession and to the national fiscal and monetary policies
designed to maintain full employment and stable price levels.
Offered every year. 3 credits.
EC 201 Intermediate Microeconomics
Prerequisite: EC 110, EC 120 and minimum sophomore status
An intermediate level treatment of the theory of market pricing in a private
enterprise system as it affects the resource and output decision of firms and
industries under various market structures and the behavior of consumers.
Offered every year. 3 credits.
EC 202 Introduction to Mathematical Economics
Prerequisites: EC 110, EC 120; MA 110 with a grade of C- or above or an
Accuplacer code of 6
A survey of some basic mathematical techniques appropriate to the analysis of
economic models and application of economic theory.
Offered every year. 3 credits.
EC 205 Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy
Prerequisites: EC 110, EC 120
A study of the roles of money, depository institutions, and central bank
monetary policy in maintaining stable growth of the American economy.
Offered every year. 3 credits.
EC 206 Urban Economics
Prerequisites: EC 110, EC 120
The theory and policy of the growth and development of metropolitan areas; some
of the policy-related problems discussed are poverty, residential and commercial
land use, and traffic congestion.
Offered every 3 years. 3 credits.
EC 208 Economics of Health Care
LASC—Individual and Community Well-Being; Writing Across the Curriculum
Prerequisites: EC 110
Introductory study of the health care industry of the United States; pricing of
health care, manpower availability, alternative delivery systems, third party
payments, and government role in planning, regulating, and financing health
care.
Offered every year. 3 credits.
EC 210 Current Economic Issues
Prerequisites: EC 110, EC 120
This course is designed to connect economic knowledge and theory acquired at the
introductory level to current economic issues and policy. National and
international topics of importance will be considered. For example, pollution,
trends in productivity, profitability and distribution, debt and deficits,
patterns of investment, trade, and globalization and the economic issues of
race, gender and poverty may be covered.
Offered every year. 3 credits
EC 215 Labor Economics
Prerequisites: EC 110, EC 120
A study of the process of wage determination in a market economy, consideration
given to the evolution of union organization and collective bargaining affecting
wages, hours, working conditions, and grievance procedures for labor.
Offered every 2 years. 3 credits.
EC 301 Economic Development
Prerequisites: EC 110, EC 120
A survey of contemporary economic theories concerning less developed countries;
social, cultural, and political forces shaping the development of such countries
are also investigated.
Offered every 3
years. 3 credits.
EC 302 Development Planning and Regional Economics
Prerequisites: EC 110, EC 120
A survey of the problems that must be dealt with by less-developed countries in
planning their economic development. Theories of regional economics applicable
to both developed and less developed economies.
Offered every 3 years. 3 credits.
EC 304 Economics of the Environment
Prerequisites: EC 110, EC 120
Methods of pollution control and the socio-economic problems caused by
pollution, current research on ecology and economics, and the impact that limits
on pollution may have on income and population growth.
Offered every 2 years. 3 credits.
EC 306 Introduction to Econometrics
Prerequisites: EC 110, EC 120, MA 150 or EC 150
The application of statistical techniques to the verification of economic models
and examination of economic problems.
Offered every 2 years. 3 credits.
EC 307 International Finance
Prerequisites: EC 110, EC 120
Study of how international trade and investment is financed in a world of
floating, fixed and managed exchange rate systems.
Offered every 2 years. 3 credits.
EC 308 International Trade
Prerequisites: EC 110, EC 120
Reasons why nations gain by spatial specialization and exchange with other
countries. Analysis of the mechanism by which international equilibrium is
restored. Study of trade and foreign exchange policies.
Offered every 2 years. 3 credits.
EC 309 Public Spending and Taxation
Prerequisites: EC 110, EC 120
Analysis of government spending, revenue sharing and taxation; includes the
impact of government spending upon efficient use of resources and national
growth.
Offered every 2 years. 3
credits.
EC 310 Public Choice
Prerequisites: EC 110, EC 120
The economic analysis of government decision-making. Voting systems, special
interest groups, log rolling, rent seeking, bureaucracy and multidimensional
versus single issue constituencies.
Offered every 3 years. 3 credits.
EC 312 Natural Resource Economics
Prerequisites: EC 110, EC 120
The use of renewable and non-renewable natural resources in a market economy and
the role of government policy concerning them.
Offered every 3 years. 3 credits
EC 400 Independent Study in Economics
Prerequisites: EC 200, EC 201 OR permission of Instructor
For the student whose needs cannot be fully met by available offerings; actual
arrangements to be made between student and professor; not intended for general
enrollment; a limit of three credits can be acquired.
Offered every year. 1-3
credits.
EC 401 Seminar
Prerequisites: EC 200, EC 201 OR permission of Instructor
A research and
discussion process intended to summarize and provide some career orientation to
the undergraduate preparation of the economics major at the senior class level.
Offered every 3 years. 3 credits
EC 402 Internship in Economics
Prerequisites: EC 200, EC 201 OR permission of Instructor
Practical experience in economic analysis with industry, non-profit
organizations, government agencies; internships may be of varying length.
Offered every year. 1-12 credits.
EC 403 Special Topics in Economics
Prerequisites: EC 200, EC 201 OR permission of Instructor
Covers selected topics in economics of mutual interest to the student and
faculty.
Offered every 2 years. 1-3
credits.